Basket-web



No. 627,283. Patented lune 20, |899.

E. L. WALKER. BASKET WEB.

(Application led Oct. 3, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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Nrrn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

`ENOS L. WALKER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

BAS KET-WEB.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 627,283, dated June 20,1899.

Application filed October 31 1898.

'To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, ENOS L WALKER, of the city of St. Louis, State ofMissouri, have invented certain newv and useful Improvements inBasket-VVebs, of which the following isa full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart thereof.

My invention relates to basket-webs; and it consists of the novelconstruction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter shown,described7 and claimed.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the basket-web as.contemplated by myinvention. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the web. Fig. 3 is an enlargeddetail sectional view taken approximately on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Y

In the construction of the web a plurality of thin splints l of equallength are arranged parallel with each other at slight distances apart,and woven at a right angle into said splints l are the transversesplints 2, the same being of equal length, and the ends of saidtransverse splints terminate at the edges of the outer pair of splintsl. The ends of the splints l extend an equal distance beyond each of theouter pair of transverse splints 2, said extended ends being interwovento form the ends of the completed basket. Arranged upon each side of theouter edge of each of the outer ends of the splints l are the flexiblebands 3, preferably of wood, the same being equal in length to thesplints 1,approximately half as wide as said splints, and slightlythicker than the same. These bands 3 are secured to the splints l and tothe ends of the y transverse splints 2 by means of staples 4 or chantsand the like-said webs to be fash-` ioned into baskets by the users, itonly being necessary to bend the webinto `the shape of a basket andinterweave the ends of the web Serial No. 692,507. (No model.)

and secure the ends of the reinforcing-bands the web it is not necessaryto locate a band' upon the'form on which the basket is finished beforesaid web is located thereon, and there fore much time and labor aresaved in the construction and formation of a basket.

I claim- As an article of manufacture, a rectangular knockdownbasket-web having four square corners and constructed with a pluralityof longitudinally-extending splints l of equal length, a plurality oftransversely-arranged splints 2 interwoven at right angles to thefirst-mentioned splints, and the reinforcingbands 3 permanently securedto each side of the outer pair of splints l and t0 the ends of thetransverse splints but with their ends free, whereby the said web may bebent into the form of a rectangular basket having square corners, andthe ends of the said strips may extend and be interwoven at right anglesto form the ends of the basket and secured to the said reinforcing-bandsafter said lastd mentioned operation, the adjacent ends of saidreinforcing-bands at each end of the basket being united at the centerof the latter, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ENOS L. WALKER.

